Félicité de La Mennais is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Félicité de La Mennais as French priest, philosopher and political theorist (1782–1854).
Félicité de La Mennais was born at Saint-Malo in 1782. His recorded nationality is France.
Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Félicité de La Mennais died in 1854, aged 72. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: philosophy
